Katherine Anne Porter

The character of Braggioni in Katherine Anne Porter's "Flowering Judas" is defined by his contradictions. He is a radical revolutionary described by his followers as "a leader of men, a skilled revolutionist, and his skin has been punctured in honorable warfare" (91). Nevertheless he dresses like a wealthy fop, showing off an imported silk handkerchief and confiding "I have a taste for elegant refinements" (93). He is more likely to be seen playing his guitar and singing a corrido than engaged in

Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” is a short story published in 1930. Through an omniscient point of view, Porter is able to convey Granny Weatherall as a strong, independent woman who has faced hardships throughout her life. The narrator presents Weatherall’s thoughts and feelings in a way that sounds similar to a first person point of view. Therefore, the reader is able to empathize with her. Granny Weatherall’s memories symbolize the major turning points in her life that

Social Isolation as a Metaphor for Disability in “Noon Wine” In the novella, “Noon Wine,” Katherine Anne Porter uses the story of Mr. Thompson to comment on disability stereotypes. The structure of Porter’s “Noon Wine” parallels many of her other works as she spins a tale which seems basic and straightforward at surface level, but when analyzed deeper contains poignant social commentary. Although she never explicitly states that each aspect of Mr. Thompson and his ultimate demise represents the

The Motif of Memory in the Work of Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter The use of memory is the shared method that both Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter have used to reveal the Southern identity of female characters in their work. Both Southern female writer share similar themes and have complicated narrative structures. Both novels deal with characters who have ignored the past and traditions, then the hardness of life impose them to pay better attention to past so as to be able to create

Andrei Costin The Future is Now by Katherine Anne Porter What struck me so much about The Future is Now is the very premise of the essay. She starts with a description of how she was told to protect herself from a nuclear bomb, and the instructions she was given that were evidently ineffective. She contrasts what she is told with her own logic; a table won’t protect you from the bomb, it will only protect you if someone may be throwing bricks at your window. A major part of why this essay was so

positive or negative aspects of humans that everyone all universally deals with at least one time in one’s life. In the novel “The Great Gatsby”, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the short stories Raymond Carver’s “Everything Stuck to Him”, and Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”, all have the most prominent human condition: love. Love is portrayed as society’s primary concern in literature, and is represented as a main concern in today’s society . In regards to the expression

while reading a story can be frustrating, but what if the author of the story is meaning for this to happen? In the story “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter, this is just the case. While reading the main character Granny Weatherall has a mental problem that causes her to think of different things at random times. Porter wants the reader to feel like they are in the same state of mind as her, and this is done by confusing the reader with the different thoughts she is having with

Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter is a fictional story that focuses on many people of different races on ship Vera. Katherine Porter has characters in the novel that are basically living in the 20th century where Germans greatly despised Jews. Jews were currently at the center of the blame because Hitler needed to place the blame on someone. This book discusses the topic of prejudice and hatred. This treatment is unjust and went against human rights. Ship of Fools touches a really sensitive

Granny Weatherall,” by Katherine Anne Porter, and Addie Bundren, in “from As I Lay Dying ‘Darl’,” by William Faulkner, are two dying poor women who recall their lives in their minds when they are laying in beds. Their tough and harsh lives are similar in several ways. Granny Weatherall and Addie Bundren both had two men in their life. Granny loves her husband, John, and George. But John dies so early unfortunately. John “would be a child beside her if she saw him now.”(Porter 565). However, Addie

In the story The Grave by Katherine Anne Porter there are two young children by the name of Miranda and Paul, ages nine and twelve. Their family owned a small cemetery where grandfather was buried, after his bones were moved from Louisiana and then to Texas. Later, their grandmother deceased and the family had to sale part of their land. Miranda and Paul went hunting on trespassing land and they both found treasures that symbolizes different meanings for each other such as the silver dove and a gold